Welcome to the Marko Lab at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. We use molecular and genomic tools to investigate how marine species are distributed and connected across space and time, addressing questions in biogeography, evolution, and conservation. 

Lab News

July 6th, 2026: Taylor's paper on eDNA population genetics is out in Molecular Ecology

July 3rd, 2026: Suddenly, the lab is done!

March 6th, 2026: We have shelves

January 9th, 2026: More progress in the lab.

December 3rd, 2025: Lab renovation at OIMB is well underway!

November 24, 2025: Taylor wins the UH Zoology Program's 2025 Annual Achievement Scholarship

November 1, 2025: Recent PhD Patrick Nichols now lives in Finland, starting a post-doc at the University of Oulu

May 5, 2025: Taylor Ely awarded the Dr. Jacqueline Maly ARCS Award in Life Sciences

August 31, 2024: Watch the video from our NSF-funded cruise to Wake and Johnston Atoll

The lab will be taking new graduate students in the fall of 2026 and 2027.